B2D (Business To Developers) is something trendy these days. It seems that we, developers, form a special group between Consumers (B2C) and Business (B2B). As an exercise, and to get a better picture of this market, I tried to cut that in categories and find examples for each. Service names are just examples, there are a lot more. But what do you think about the categories ? Source code management Version control, collaboration and bug tracking. Github, Bitbucket, Codebase, ... Project management Task management, bug tracking, project management, agile/scrum tools. Jira, PivotalTracker, Trello, Sprintly, ... Testing and Continuous Integration Test...
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Over the last couple of months, I've spent a great deal of time thinking about what "devops" means for me and my team at Say Media. The industry overall has been describing devops as a world where developers know more about the operational environment; and where operations folks know more about programming and application development. I think that's a good start, but it overlooks some of the nuances involved in implementing that culture. For the field of software engineering to grow and mature, it needs to bifurcate into specialized disciplines. The most obvious division is "operations" and "development", and then...
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A. Public facing practices: *1. Are user requests tracked via a ticket system? *2. Are "the 3 empowering policies" defined and published? 3. Does the team record monthly metrics? B. Modern team practices: *4. Do you have a "policy and procedure" wiki? 5. Do you have a password safe? 6. Is your team's code kept in a source code control system? 7. Does your team use a bug-tracking system for their own code? 8. In your bugs/tickets, does stability have a higher priority than new features? 9. Does your team write "design docs"? 10. Do you have a "post-mortem" process?...
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I am getting hundreds of emails every day and among them many are requests for "can you talk about this and tweet that" which I generally ignore if I don't know who is asking and just in general because I...
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As part of our ongoing rollout of the NEW TypePad we are pleased to announce new social blogging features and the launch of TypePad Micro: a completely free level of TypePad focused on easy sharing...
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via everything.typepad.com I now post almost 100% of my Twitter and Facebook updates via my TypePad blog. It's easy, automatic, and with our Bit.ly integration I get all the stats I want. It's a great way to share things that...
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